Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many tonnes of steel procured by the Ministry of Defence in financial years (1) 2023–24, and (2) 2024–25 were (a) produced in the UK, and (b) imported; and, in the case of imported steel, from which countries that steel originated.

The main Defence requirements for steel are generally sourced by our prime contractors. The publication of cross-Government steel data is led by the Department for Business and Trade and is routinely published on gov.uk at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/steel-public-procurement I have attached the tables for 2023 and 2024.

The data available shows both the tonnage and origin of steel procured for Ministry of Defence programmes.